On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:25:51PM +0200, Johannes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> on my etch I 'suddenly' get a very funny behaviour when running aptitude:
> 
> 11:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search pppoe
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  St9bad_alloc

I get that sometimes too. Don't know why, but as root a:
echo 1000000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
seems to cure it.

For the record; my command is $ apt-cache search <package>

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Chris.
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than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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